Despite the soulful No ID – along with Young Chop, Don Cannon and others – tailored vibe that dominated Castro, if anything it’s MMM Season that, at it’s best, showcases more of Mikkey’s artistic depth.  On “Butterfly Effect,” Mikkey examines the role that fate plays in our lives and their interconnections with some of the strongest rap verses penned this year:

“What if I’d never been born, imagine momma aborted me / would they still have married or was it all in support of me / dad would’ve probably took his offer overseas / and made a couple million, maybe played in the league / never lived with regrets, or had to slave on the train /never would’ve tried to numb all his pain with cocaine / probably still be alive, but what about my mother / maybe she’d stay in school or fall in love with a sucker / they wouldn’t have made my sister that introduced me to Yeezy who did my first demo that got to the ears of Weezy, maybe if they’d never found Chrissy and Mikkey / then Wayne would’ve never signed Drizzy and Nicki / life is a house of cards, snatch one from the bottom / and see how fast the ones from the top start falling / the unbreakable chain, everything is connected / and fate is the thread that holds everything together”  – Mikkey Halsted “Butterfly Effect“